On 5/18/2020 6:18 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 16/05/2020 13:53, Neil Horman: >> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 04:01:53PM +0100, Ray Kinsella wrote: >>> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> >>> >>> On v20.02 some APIs matured and symbols moved from EXPERIMENTAL to >>> DPDK_20.0.1 block. >>> >>> This had the affect of breaking the applications that were using these >>> APIs on v19.11. Although there is no modification of the APIs and the >>> action is positive and matures the APIs, the affect can be negative to >>> applications. >>> >>> When a maintainer is promoting an API to become part of the next major >>> ABI version by removing the experimental tag. The maintainer may >>> choose to offer an alias to the experimental tag, to prevent these >>> breakages in future. >>> >>> The following changes are made to enabling aliasing: >>> >>> Updated to the abi policy and abi versioning documents. >>> >>> Created VERSION_SYMBOL_EXPERIMENTAL helper macro. >>> >>> Updated the 'check-symbols.sh' buildtool, which was complaining that the >>> symbol is in EXPERIMENTAL tag in .map file but it is not in the >>> .experimental section (__rte_experimental tag is missing). >>> Updated tool in a way it won't complain if the symbol in the >>> EXPERIMENTAL tag duplicated in some other block in .map file (versioned) >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> >>> Signed-off-by: Ray Kinsella <m...@ashroe.eu> >>> >> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhor...@tuxdriver.com> > > Applied with few typos fixed, thanks. >
Is a new version of the meter library required?
